Minerva

Caesar Florence-Howard

Australia

Caesar Florence-Howard (b. 1994, Melbourne) has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne and Honours in Fine Arts from Monash University. Selected solo exhibitions include Caesar Florence-Howard, Sutton Projects, Melbourne, 2023; Visual imagery, Asbestos, Melbourne, 2023, Caesar Florence-Howard, Hyacinth, Melbourne, 2022; and the group shows Farr St, and The Look of Love, Minerva, Sydney, both 2023.

The organic surface textures in Caesar’s paintings constructed through a guided process involving the adding and subtracting of many layers of art and non-art materials such as acrylic paint, sand, glue, and liquid latex. His paintings have been described as both intelligent and sensuous, even decadent.